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Music For Wartime: Stories
Penguin Books
ISBN13:
9780143109235
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A short-story collection from the acclaimed author of The Great Believers Named a must-read by the Chicago Tribune, O Magazine, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and The L Magazine Rebecca Makkais first two novels, The Borrower and The Hundred-Year House, have established her as one of the freshest and most imaginative voices in fiction. Now, the award-winning writer, whose stories have appeared in four consecutive editions of The Best American Short Stories, returns with a highly anticipated collection bearing her signature mix of intelligence, wit, and heart. A reality show producer manipulates two contestants into falling in love, even as her own relationship falls apart. Just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a young boy has a revelation about his fathers past when a renowned Romanian violinist plays a concert in their home. When the prized elephant of a traveling circus keels over dead, the small-town minister tasked with burying its remains comes to question his own faith. In an unnamed country, a composer records the folk songs of two women from a village on the brink of destruction. These transporting, deeply moving storiessome inspired by her own family historyamply demonstrate Makkais extraordinary range as a storyteller, and confirm her as a master of the short story form. Richly imagined. Chicago Tribune Impressive. O, The Oprah Magazine Engrossing. Minneapolis Star-Tribune Inventive. W Magazine
- | Author: Rebecca Makkai
- | Publisher: Penguin Books
- | Publication Date: Jun 07, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 256 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0143109235
- | ISBN-13: 9780143109235
- Author:
- Rebecca Makkai
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books
- Publication Date:
- Jun 07, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 256 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0143109235
- ISBN-13:
- 9780143109235